For those who missed the Pentax massacre, here is the recap: http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2006/02/pentax-holds-product-massacre-too.html
Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dario Bonazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 5:52 PM Subject: Re: shrinking Tokina lens line > That was already evident at Photokina last September, where they were only > promoting the Pentax co-developed lenses. At that time, I was rather > surprised by that. > Now I better understand it all as a re-shaping of their line, something > that Pentax did in 2005-2006 with the infamous Pentax lens massacre (which > in practice killed all non-digital lenses). > That was fruitful from the Pentax accountants point of view (less so from > the customer point of view). > > Dario > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Roshchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 5:39 PM > Subject: shrinking Tokina lens line > > >> >> I just looked at the line of Tokina AF lenses and was surprised: >> they removed many good lenses from there: >> http://thkphoto.com/products/tokina/index.html >> >> I am not sure if this is a sign that they are soon to introduce "digital" >> versions of the older lenses (28-70 and 19-35), or they are shrinking >> their manufacturing under Tokina brand >> (possibly as a result of the recent merger). >> >> Any thoughts, information? >> >> Igor >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
